Davis, Miles - Seven Steps to Heaven - Super Hot Stamper

Davis, Miles - Seven Steps to Heaven - Super Hot StamperThis is an interesting album because half of it is recorded in Hollywood and half of it in New York, with the songs in each location interspersed on the sides. Victor Feldman handles the piano duties in California; Herbie Hancock in New York. I actually prefer Victor Feldmans playing on this record. We dont get to hear his piano work often hes really quite good. (Cal Tjader started out on the drums but its tough to find records with him drumming.) One

Other copies -- my notes for these copies often read "BIG and BOLD" -- create a huge soundfield

Stuck-in-the-speakers low-resolution sound

The sound varies quite a bit from track to track

On anything but a Hot Stamper pressing

I grew up on Roxy Music

the other giant on this record is John Coltrane

McCartney Unplugged is a recording that should be part of any serious popular music collection

The Planets is a difficult record to reproduce

the presence of the vocals and guitars is so real it's positively startling at times

early pressings of this album

copies that never fully come to life

The sound is big